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This was a challenge for me. I have never made an intarsia pattern on my own before. My neighbor came to me with a photo of the military airplane he spent his 25 Canadian Air force carrier in. This aircraft was used to search the ocean waters for enemy subs. I found it very challenging for me because he kept changing what I was doing and he kept wanting it to be more of a model than an intarsia item. I was really wanting to making it just the way he wanted it but every change, along the way, put more doubt in my success to make it happen and added a lot of extra time to the process. This project is 28 inches long and approximately 14 inches high. I used a woodburner to make the stripe on the body of the plane black. Dick heppnerguy

Made for granddaughter. Bragging more on my granddaughter than the scroll work. Had her for a few days. What a treat!

I made this for a couple of Nieces who's mother recently passed away at 95 years old. She was married to my wife's brother who died about 55 years ago and several years later she remarried. My wife and I saw her only a few times since my wife's brother was killed so we really do not have much of a connection with her. We do keep in pretty close contact with the daughters and when she passed I made one of these plaque for each of them.. I modified the plaques a little and got them into the mail yesterday. They will be receiving them on Monday. These are patterns by Sue Mey and like I said, I did modify them a little. Dick heppnerguy

Hi everyone. Just finished doing these today. Just waiting for some acrylic spray to come in to finish up the Marine one. I want to give Paul (scrappile) a big thank you for all his help and tips on how to do these. I would of never been able to tackle these without his help. There no where as good as his but they will do for now. Going to my son in-law and grandson.

Some cuttings I did this week. Not sure exactly how I intend to finish up the John 3:16 as it’s just 1/8” bbply. Thinking about making a slightly larger heart shape backer from Walnut. Trivets cut from 1/2” Cherry and will probably be dipped in Danish oil once I get a few more things made. Also worked on doing some gluing pieces together for the Cogsworth project I’ve been working on in the sideworks. Have also done some cutting board glue ups that maybe one day I’ll laser something on them.

It’s a Steve Good pattern that I added an inlay, red oak with bb inlay, cut with #3 pegas mg, thx RJ

I purchased a 6 pattern set last year and made the truck then. Made the coupe today... at this rate, 4 more years and I'll have all 6 completed! LOL The coupe was made with a Cedar body and some Pine fenders. I used BLO as a finish. I knew that both the Cedar and Pine would probably not look good with any kind of finish so I took the easy way out and used the BLO. Btw, the truck has a Maple body and Walnut fenders.

Hi, Office dept can cut the spine of the book , sometimes ask few dollars sometime they do for free…I don’t know why tese different customers service, I cut several books and they do a really good job ciao

I admit to being a bit of a procrastinator at times. Sometimes it’s in finishing a project. Sometimes it’s in taking photographs of the projects. Here are somethings I started on last year, and finally got painted and finished and photographed. I cut all of them out on my scroll saw. I then hand carved the pieces. Then painted them. Most of them are Christmas ornaments that may or may not have been completed in time to be given to my family as intended. Perhaps that just means I have them done for this year. The patterns for most if not all of these came from issues of the Woodcarving Illustrated magazine from Fox Chapel. If one is one someone is interested in, let me know and I can give more specifics on the designer and issue. One snowman is a Steve Good pattern he provided as segmentation pattern that a few on here have cut and shown previously. The books are based on a carving lesson video from Doug Linker on a YouTube. He shows carving books. I carved 3, stacked them to create an ornament for a book lover. The Iris flower is a Judy Gale Roberts Intarsia design. However, I wanted to attempt to carve it. This was only my fifth attempt at hand carving a project AND it was the first time I attempted to carve something that I was not following along with carving directions from an instructor, video, and their pattern. I had many issues with this piece. The biggest one was when I cut my pointer finger very badly and deeply while carving it. Fortunately, I didn’t do significant damage (like cut off my finger tip) but the tip of that finger still has some numbness and hypersensitivity but I am hopeful that it may still heal completely and that will go away. Nerve damage can take a long time to heal I know. It’s been about 6 months ago now I think. Time will tell. let’s just say it’s a good reminder to wear gloves and keep my fingers out of the way of the knifes and gouges. If my family ever needs a DNA sample, there is plenty from the blood that is on the pattern! The other is the framing on the iris, the wood is 100+ year old barn wood from a milking barn that was torn down on my husband’s family’s property. His parents bought the old farm land to build his family’s home more than 55 years ago. They tore down the main barn and some out buildings I believe. This particular out barn was left and was only torn down in the past 5-10 years or so and we kept a lot of that wood. These were actually scraps he had left when he built my son a watch box from it for Christmas. Sorry for the long winded explanation! But I like to explain things! Judy’s pattern for the Iris includes a frame it overlaps in several places and on three of the sides of the frame. I only overlapped in two places and on the same side. Judy’s pattern is a sett of 3 different flowers. Only time will tell if I attempt any of the others. You can find Judy’s pattern here on her website : https://intarsia.com/products/i-266-flower-fest-1?_pos=2&_sid=fac716d0f&_ss=r

Anyone using the dust control thing from Hegner? https://advanced-machinery.myshopify.com/products/saw-dust-management-system?variant=26762215494 Just wondered how this thing performs, I know I could build something from PVC etc and probably what I'll do but was just curious how this performs.. If I hear some good reviews of this I might just order it instead..

I love my Office Depot. I did not know they do this!

I bought the newest Scrollnado. Steve Good did a review on it. It came with everything including the dust separator. I really like it. I scroll indoors.

It's the vacuum. the high pitched whining is just too much for me. The suction noise doesn't bother me ( different strokes for different folks ).

I have a new saw that came with the "dust control thingy" It works quite well in the "blow from the top, vac from the bottom " mode. I don't like the noise from the vac (waiting to see how well it works with the DC in the main shop) so it's normally just the "blow from the top" mode for me.

I take a picture with my phone and email it to myself.

This is my favorite.

Thanks to Don in Brooklin for the pattern.

Another to the Military set.

I have seen Paul's setup. It looks good and works well. I keep thinking I will copy his but I get to busy scrolling and it never gets done. Maybe I can hire Paul to come down and make me one LOL.

I do the same thing Roberta does. Probably not correct but its my magazine so I have at it. Razor knife works well.

That is beautiful. Well done! My son-in-law is an aviation tech and keeps the Canadian Hercules planes flying for search & rescue.

So is the vacuum the noise what's loud or the suction noise from the hose or both, LOL.. I have a vacuum that's quite quiet rated at 62dbl. and it isn't bad but I've seen where the suction noise is too much for some folks.. I used to use my big shop vac.. now that was loud.. but not too bad if I put it on the other end of the shop, LOL Thank you

Mine, too.

Thank you Paul, Ray, RJ and Kevin. I’m excited and nervous at the same time. Excited for being able to purchase one of the best,and nervous because of the cost. But, as Don Henley sing/sang/sung, “but you don’t no hearses with luggage racks”. Thanks again, to all of you who have chimed in on this post. Very much appreciated.

I did think about that just about an hour ago.. I'm going to try that before I cut this book up... Thanks

I'm not talking about the bellows.. the bellows on mine is great.. but it doesn't have a flex tube hooked to it so it constantly blows the dust right at me.. this is a kit to use a vacuum and collect the dust from both below and above the table..

I use a cheapo aquarium pump. That way even when I am scrolling super slow, it blows the dust all the time. Just taped the hose to the existing hose and put the end of a bic style pen in the end to make it pointy and adjust the direction of the air. Maybe cost me $15 with the pump, tubing and all if that. Works great. not the prettiest thing in the world but I am fine with that,

I think you’re going to love that saw! Congratulations, look forward to hearing your thoughts on it.

Congradulations will be watching for your review, RJ

Boom! Poof! Way to go Wiley Coyote!

Congratulations. Marriage is a commitment that requires a lot of give and take, sharing, understanding and thinking about 'how important is it to be right? and last but most of all, loving each other and treating them with that thought always first. We were in the same situation you are talking about except I was 21 years old while my wife was 18. We have been married 62 years and still love each other very much. Dick heppnerguy

I've contacted Fox Chapel numerous times about making the patterns available digitally. They keep telling me they are not able to do it. Hogwash! The entire magazine is done digitally. Who do they think they are kidding? We may be old but we aren't stupid! I've been a loyal subscriber for many years but I think I'm done.

How do you guys get your patterns printed when they are in a book? Do you cut the page out of the book or do you try to scan it without ripping out pages? I usually don't do patterns from books because of this issue and I hate the idea of taking books apart.. But I guess it is just a book and once I have the patterns on my computer I could throw the book away.. seems kind of wasteful to me... It'd be really nice to see them digitalize magazines and these books.. Magazines isn't such an issue to me because you can take the staples loose and remove the large paper pattern section and place on a scanner.. the one thing about those is.. they're printed on both sides of this large paper and if you want patterns from both sides you end up folding it 50 times both ways until you get to the right pattern, LOL. If you cut out the pattern then you likely cut through something good on the opposite side. I got this book for Christmas and have been enjoying the patterns until the last one I cut the other day kinda messed up my project because I ran out of line to follow.. this happen on both a couple of the inside cuts and the outer profile.. while in the cropped photo section posted below this doesn't look horrible as you can see somewhat where the red / pinkish lines would be.. BUT, I only have a black and white printer... add magnification into the mix of that blur and I couldn't do anything but guess where to cut.. also add the fact that I was cutting on a saw that I wasn't acquainted with too.. I've seen worst cuttings but this came out kinda bad.. and it's too the fault of me not wanting to rip out a page in the book, but this make me mad as heck.. I'm about to rip the whole book to sheds and put it all on computer file then go burn what's left of the papers. But before I do that.. I'm asking you guys if there is a better way to get the patterns printed? Photos below of my project and a cropped portion of my pattern where it made me mess up.

WEll I no longer have the setup I had, I took it off when my Fein vac, died. The shop vac is just too noisy. The one I had on my Seyco, is with Andy, don't know if he uses it. It is very easy to make, just pvc pipe. If Andy is not using it, maybe you can talk him out of it.

I got to throw in my long-winded two cents worth. I have scanned hundreds and possibly thousands of pages. If you are scanning from a book and want an excellent scan, you must get it flat on the scanner. In some cases, this will mean damaging the binding. If I am scanning the entire book, I don't care if I break the binding. Cutting the binding off makes it easier. Once the book is scanned, I will be happy with the scans. I no longer care about the book. You can scan entire books by cutting off the binding and hand-feeding them. It is a slow, tedious task. Nowadays, I pay someone to scan books for me. I highly recommend "Book Scan US" for this. They have scanned 47 books so far for me. How much it costs is complicated. You need to ship the books to them, which is a cost. After that, the basic cost is $1 to scan a book of 300 pages or less. If you want the book back that costs return shipping, there are options (OCR, Higher resolutions, etc.) and small fees for some things. For example, I had some odd-sized books that needed to be cut down to fit their scanners. You also need a dropbox account and a Google account. You order by filling out a Google sheet spreadsheet. You get your books via a shared folder on DropBox. It takes them a long time to get the scanning done. I think it is one person. You only pay once the work is completed. "Book Scan US" is highly recommended. I'm working on box number three. I load all my scanned books into Calibre, where I can tag them, add the contents, and index them to the comments. It is all searchable. Scroll Saw Wood Working and Crafts believe their method is a copy protection scheme. They are wrong. I have the digital versions of the magazines from their CDs, and I don't have any severe problem getting patterns from those. I have to put some back together because they were scanned as separate pages. If I were to scan the paper, I would cut the patterns out, cutting them in half to get them to fit on the scanner if needed. The first thing I do when I cut a scanned pattern is open it in Gimp and clean it up if needed. If the pattern is in more than one piece, I can put it together in Gimp. Next, I copy the pattern to Inkscape and trace it converting it to SVG format. There are some tweaks you can do in Inkscape, like setting the line width and color, but the big thing is that once I have the pattern in SVG format, I can make it any size I want with zero degradation. When I triple the size, I don't get broad gray pixelated lines, and the lines stay the same when I shrink a pattern. The sizing works great. If I want a pattern 4 inches high, I lock the dimensions and set the height to four inches. When I print the pattern, I get a four-inch pattern. I can set the page size to the dimensions of the piece of wood I am working with, add the patterns I want to use, resize and turn them any way I need to make maximum use of the wood. Set the page size back to normal and print. It is a steep learning curve, but it is worth the effort.

Nice work Kevin. Did you use your new to you saw or one of your older ones you are used to driving?

very nice

excellent work

fantastic job

Very beautiful job Dick

very well done Ralph

Okay, I will show you my very profession setup I have. It works good I blow the dust towards my fan.. Looks like when I was cutting this afternoon I forgot to turn my fan on.

Perfect for this time of year. Great job.

Wow Dick. Outstanding. Sometimes you amaze us.

Yea! You'll love it!

They all looks super! Very nice work.

You did an outstanding job, Dick.

I wonder how hard it would be to drill holes to allow the book to be put into a 3 ring binder, after the spine of the book was removed? I know it could be done, a few pages at a time, with a 3 ring hole punch, but it seems like it could be easy enough to do on a drill press, even sandwiched between 2 pieces of plywood.

maybe the first sale was just before Christmas too. They are usually some of the best sales times. You can buy a fair amount of supplies with that money. There is always time for another sale and you have a good start on that one already Dick heppnerguy

Seems to me that would just make me walk in circles! Well that is what I do most the time anyway.